Morning Notes: The Leader of the Kids Edition

AMBASSADORIAL SUCCESSION

Kate DiCamillo is the new National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. She’s a perfect pick. SLJ gave me the honor of interviewing Ms. DiCamillo for the February issue and they included an excerpt in their Ambassador announcement. Click here to read.

AND THE BEST-SELLING BOOK OF 2013 IS…

… a book for kids. Among all books published last year, a children’s book took the top spot. That’s cool. Can you guess what it is? Difficulty Level: Low. Click here to find out.

Very smart, Amulet/ABRAMS. Here we have a repackaged version of Tom Angleberger’s first book The Qwikpick Adventure Society (which I reviewed way back on aught eight). That book (originally published by Dial) was picked up by Amulet, received a facelift (see: new cover), and will be the jumping off point for a new Qwikpick Papers series. A great idea.

Here’s to kicking off 2014 by keeping focused on the important things.

As @colbysharp reminds us, the big awards are right around the corner.

And now for the cool thing of the day. A lift the flap book meets a Choose Your Own Adventure book, creating something entirely wonderful.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

They reached their funding goal, but I thought you might like to see the book synopsis regardless. The trailer for the app from which the book came about is pretty awesome: http://www.jorgits.com/about/

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About 100 Scope Notes

Children's literature news, reviews and assorted school librarian oddities. Combine one part kid's books, one part school librarianship, a splash of absurdity and you get 100 Scope Notes.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...